What’s Your Favorite IRC Client, and Why?

@mudle@lemmy.ml · 1Y

What’s Your Favorite IRC Client, and Why?

@kixik@lemmy.ml · edit-2 1Y

srain, becuase of being modern gtk, because of being light on dependencies, because of being available on aur, and because I’d like it more (yes there are several things that are also a matter of taste) than the alternatives, :)

@pastermil@sh.itjust.works · 1Y

hexchat, also Konversation

@feoh@lemmy.ml · 1Y

Convos - self hosted web based client written in Perl of all things, because it’s small, simple, does exactly what I want and no more, and avoids my having to faff with client + bouncer which was getting old 10 years ago and feels positively withering now.

https://convos.chat/

@Matty_r@programming.dev · 1Y

The one I wrote myself. Not because its any better ha ha. Its pretty fun to work on it though.

@dotslashme@infosec.pub · 1Y

Irssi all the way

@refalo@programming.dev · edit-2 1Y

Unfortunately it’s practically unusable for my use case, which is talking in CJK channels on non-UTF8 servers (when the channel name also has such characters), because recode support has been broken for 20 years.

@neidu2@feddit.nl · edit-2 1Y

Same. I used mIRC back in the 90’s, but ever since I started dabbling with servers I preferred to have an irssi client running inside a screen session somewhere. Allowed me to catch up on things that happened while I was AFK, as well as provide some continuity while I was on the move and/or on a dodgy connection.

whoareu · 1Y

I use the web client of libera.chat and I love it because convenience!

@Mio@feddit.nu · 1Y

Hexchat and pidgin. What to do now when they are not supported on wayland?

@bacon_pdp@lemmy.world · 1Y

ERC, why leave Emacs?

@lud@lemm.ee · 1Y

Because it’s healthy.

@vort3@lemmy.ml · 1Y

I use Quassel hosted on my server.

@dkc@lemmy.world · 1Y

I use Hexchat. It’s a fine GUI a client, simple and reliable. I use a ZNC bouncer so no need to keep a CLI client running 24/7.

@liliumstar@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1Y

Just to let you know, Hexchat is no longer maintained, unless someone has forked it. Might be worth looking into alternatives.

https://hexchat.github.io/news/2.16.2.html

@JetpackJackson@feddit.de · 1Y

Aw drat. That sucks. Thanks for pointing that out

56! · 1Y

Has IRC been getting many new features recently? It kind of feels like the sort of thing where software can become “finished”.

lemmyvore · 1Y

IRC keeps evolving constantly. In fact it’s one of the few protocols without a fixed spec.

chameleon · 1Y

IRCv3 has extended IRC quite a bit over the past decade, fixing a lot of minor pain points if clients support the fixed versions of the protocol.

@liliumstar@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1Y

I mean yeah, Hexchat does work pretty well and is kind of finished. But it’s possible there are existing security vulnerabilities or new ones to be discovered in the future.

@semitones@lemmy.ml · 1Y

Same. Hexchat + znc = peak of software development

@Takios@discuss.tchncs.de · 1Y

Quassel, self-hosted.

Daeraxa · 1Y

Halloy

@kixik@lemmy.ml · 1Y

Haven’t tried halloy, but it sounds cool, I wish rust build with shared libs in mind, instead of everything link statically, but it sounds interesting, I’ll see how it is compared to srain which is my current choice…

@vitriolix@lemmy.world · 1Y

Element, not only is Matrix the future but it handles bridging to irc well

@refalo@programming.dev · 1Y

the future

Only if the future is a privacy and GDPR minefield…

@confusedbytheBasics@lemmy.world · 1Y

What makes it more of a minefield than email?

Meldrik · 1Y

The Lounge. Very convenient to use.

Max-P · 1Y

Already coming up close to 10 years of The Lounge! Really gets the job done nicely as long as you don’t hate webapps. By far the least broken option for mobile unless you go IRCCloud.

@Revan343@lemmy.ca · 1Y

Quassel nowadays, because I’m on my phone more often than my laptop. Back when I say at a keyboard more, it was irssi, no contest